Foreword

The idea of an anthology of my work on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
was not my idea. Whatever blame is attributable to such an enterprise -- and
considerable censure may be in order for the waste of paper attendant to this
project -- is properly placed on Mr. John Kelin.

Mr. Kelin sees value in these writings which I have always accepted as the
clumsy expressions of simple truths. I wrote them, not to demonstrate any
skills I had as a writer or as a scholar, since my writings clearly show my
limitations as such. Rather, I wrote these pieces to explain how easy it was
to come to the truth of how and why our national security state killed
President Kennedy in order to perpetuate the Cold War.

                                        PHOTO: GENE SMIRNOV

The material I presented was not born of original thinking or meticulously
researched. Rather, what I mainly used in demonstrating the truth of this
assassination was material offered to us by the United States Government in
the Warren Report and its accompanying transcripts and exhibits. I also
utilized material which was published in our press.

In examining these data in light of the model of explanation of a national
security state foreign policy assassination, I found that the data fit the
model. Finding this to be the case, I felt duty-bound to the society to bear
witness to what I saw as the truth.

This truth was there for all of us to see. Any mystery which obscured the
truth was first instilled by the power structure of our nation in order to
maintain a semblance of legitimacy and constitutional democracy when both had
been effectively destroyed by the killing of our President. Why was this
mystery regarding the assassination accepted by much of our population? For
most of our people the truth was too painful and placed upon us too much
responsibility. We did not wish to reexamine, condemn, and confront the
violence in the extra-constitutional power structure that finally ascended to
hegemony over our citizenry and over much of the world.

But the truth was easily ascertainable. I feel that my work on the
assassination is an accomplishment which required little intelligence, minimal
analytic ability and no special talents. Rather it reflected a willingness to
bear witness to the truth irrespective of the consequences. In my
responsibility to adhering to the truth as I saw it, I have been and will
continue to be, oblivious to all the consequences of its expression.

                                                         Vincent J. Salandria
                                                                 Summer, 1999


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